An inadvertent reading goal

As I’ve talked about a lot on here, my primary reading goal for the year has been to meet the Mind Voyages Reading Challenge. Doing great so far. Only five books remaining, and I’m listening to one of them now.

The extra constraints I’ve placed on this challenge have morphed into another reading goal for 2010: Only read authors I’ve never read before. I’m doing quite well at this, but there’s still five and half months to go. It might get tempting to slip. Authors I’ve read so far in 2010, in chronological order, are:

Kim Stanley Robinson
Neil Gaiman
Robert J. Sawyer
Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
Louis Bayard
Lois McMaster Bujold
Margaret Atwood
Connie Willis
Harlan Coben
Vernor Vinge
R. A. MacAvoy
Seth Godin
David Weber
Diane Duane
Sara Gruen
Cherie Priest
John Scalzi

On deck include: Paolo Bacigalupi, Joe Haldeman, Brian Aldiss, and Elizabeth Moon. And there will surely be more. Yes, I know I risk street cred by admitting I’ve never read any of these authors before, but it’s a chance I take.

(The observant among you will notice China Mieville’s not listed. That’s because I listened to The City & The City and didn’t actually read it. Splitting hairs, perhaps, but it’s my blog – my rules.)

Next year, I’m going to use what I’ve discovered this year as a platform for expansion. That, and I’m going to sign up to review all the Hugo nominees and vote on the Hugo Awards. But that’s for a later time.